Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, I hope to be back behind the microphone taking questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the world at 3pm North American Eastern (8pm British Summer Time) for our latest Clubland Q&A. Hope you can swing by. ~I have received several complaints from readers wanting to know why I didn't observe the twentieth anniversary of the so-called 7/7 bombings yesterday. Well, it's for the same reason that SteynOnline no longer observes the 9/11 anniversary. Because we dishonoured the dead: we were summoned to a great societal challenge and could not muster the will to rise to it. As I wrote (all together now) twenty bloody years ago: It has been sobering this past week watching some of my 'woollier' ...
If you're swimming in Germany, beware of predatory redhead hausfraus...
Rick McGinnis reviews Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man...
Steyn marks Dominion Day and Independence Day with an hour of musical border-jumping...
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up her excellent links from around the world...
This week's show covered a range of topics from the Great Pushback in America and impending civil war elsewhere to the Afghan Cary Grant and insufficient wind at the opera...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Ofcom decided that my conversation with Naomi Wolf about the Covid vaccines risked causing "harm" to people. And we wouldn't want that, would we? So I was interested to learn from the weekend's Glastonbury Festival just who you can target for "harm"...
From the 2025 Steyn Cruise, Mark and Dan Wootton together again for the first time since the GB News days...
Steyn talks to Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer about Irish anti-Semitism...
A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
An anthem for rebellious youth written by a guy born in the nineteenth century
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we observe a most consequential anniversary, enjoy some protean French rock'n'roll and hear Sinatra on a hit he "unequivocally detests". To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. Bob Loblaw tweets: This week's Mark Steyn On the Town has got to be one of my favorites! The birthday tribute to Mel Brooks's Show Tunes was so much fun!... and the backstory on the song 'Save the Last Dance for Me' gives it a whole new depth of meaning. Excellent production as always. Mr Bradley, an Oregon Steyn Clubber, says: Wow, that hour just flew by. Really enjoyable song selection. Doc Pomus left behind quite the song catalog. I ...
Steyn celebrates Independence Day, in New Hampshire and beyond...
At noon on this day in 1867, the British North America Act came into effect and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada - that's Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) - were united into the brand new Dominion of Canada...
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we celebrate two very different songwriters, and some ring-a-ding-ding movie themes...
On this week's episode, we wish a happy birthday to a legendary British lyricist, mark the solstice with summer and winter songs from the northern and summer hemispheres, and enjoy a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades...
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we remember a fine songwriter, celebrate the centennial of a great American standard, and enjoy the windy Sinatra...
Welcome to the seventy-first audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
A rerun of a Tale for Our Time first aired almost a decade ago: Belling the Cat by Rudyard Kipling...
Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...